architriclinus

From archi- (“arch-, highest”) +‎ trīclīnium (“dining room”) +‎ -us.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ar.kʰi.triːˈkliː.nus/, [ärkʰɪt̪riːˈklʲiːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.ki.triˈkli.nus/, [ärkit̪riˈkliːnus]

architrīclīnus m (genitive architrīclīnī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) master of a feast (who presides at table)
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate John.2.8:

     Et dicit eis Iesus: haurite nunc et ferte architriclino, et tulerunt.

     And Jesus said to them, “Now draw from it and take it to the master of the feast”, and they took it.

Second-declension noun.

• Old Galician-Portuguese: arquetecrinno
• Portuguese: arquitriclino
• Spanish: arquitriclino

• “architriclinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• architriclinus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• architriclinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Souter, Alexander (1949) “architrīclīnus”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.‎, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 22